PARLIAMENT

Grey River Argus, 20 October 1934, Page 8

PARLIAMENT

To Adjourn Soon COALITION CAUCUS. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, October 19. The adjournment of the House on Wednesday October 31, and the resumption of the session early in February, hag been decided on. by the Cabinet, and an official announcement will be made to the House, following the caucus <yf the Coalition on Tuesday morning next. The caucus will discuss the recommendations of the Dairy Commission, and apprising the rank-and-file of the nature of the .legislative -proposals arising out of the report which -the Government will ask the House to pass before adjournment. Mr Forbes stated the adjournment of the House at the end of October, was the objective of the Government?

The New Zealand delegation to Australia, which is Vo confer with the Federal Ministers on a new trade agreement consists of Mr Masters and Mr Coates who leave Wellington on Tuesday, October 30. Their absence will be indefinite. It is -anticipated that they will be accompanied by the Comptroller of Customs. Dr G. vtraig, and Dr R. M. Campbell Mr Coates’s economic secretary.

The Prime Minister announced Sir J. Pa.r r had agreed to the Government’s request he should continue as High Commissioner for New Zealand in London for a further 12 months from December.